- Industry: Computer; Software
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Apple Inc., formerly Apple Computer, Inc., is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software and personal computers.
A track in a QuickTime movie that maintains a list of VR nodes.
Industry:Software; Computer
A path used to constrain the drawing of other objects within its bounds.
Industry:Software; Computer
A category for AppleScript objects that share characteristics, such as properties and elements.
Industry:Software; Computer
A drawing environment defined by a CGContextRef for Quartz 2D. The drawing environment contains all the information needed to translate drawing operations from bits in memory to the appropriate destination format (onscreen pixels, PDF, PostScript).
Industry:Software; Computer
A component that converts text into speech. A speech synthesiser usually contains executable code, built-in dictionaries, and pronunciation rules that help it determine how to pronounce text. Also called a speech engine.
Industry:Software; Computer
The white space between the bottom of the glyph and the visible ending of the glyph.
Industry:Software; Computer
A feature that supports drawing to an abstract space such that drawing is the same size when rendered for raster devices of any native resolution.
Industry:Software; Computer
A set of rules that specifies the appropriate uses for a certificate that has a specific level of trust. For example, the trust policy for a browser might state that if a certificate has an SSL certificate extension, but the certificate has expired, the user should be prompted for permission before a secure session is opened with a web server.
Industry:Software; Computer
In Mach, a remote procedure call that does not return a value and has no out or inout parameters. It can be used for asynchronous operations. See also routine.
Industry:Software; Computer
The GID associated with a file-system object. Each file-system object has a user ID (the file UID, commonly referred to as the file’s owner), a group ID (the file GID, commonly referred to as the file’s group), and three sets of permission bits, known as owner, group, and other permissions. The first set of bits controls access to the object by the owner, the second controls access by members of the group, and the third controls access by everyone else. See also process GID.
Industry:Software; Computer